Conceptual art emerged at the end of the sixties, bringing a new meaning to photography that transcends its use for portraiture, landscapes and snapshots, thus the term Conceptual Photography derives from Conceptual Art movement. Conceptual photography does not reproduce the beauty of the world around us. It therefore stands in opposition to art photography and Fine Art.
10 Photographers from different countries took part in the International Group photo exhibition “Architecture in Photography. Urban Encounters. ’2020’ held in the HAZEGALLERY BERLIN 12-26 November, curated by Irina Rusinovich.
Derived from the French verb coller, meaning “to glue,” collage refers to both the technique and the resulting work of art in which fragments of paper and other materials are arranged and glued or otherwise affixed to a supporting surface. The development of collage techniques in the 20th century is associated with the names of Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris. The term "collage" itself was first applied to the works of Dadaists and Surrealists. Later it was also used in relation to other arts: literature, music, cinema, etc.
René Magritte is one of the brightest representatives of surrealism. He was a researcher, an art thinker and an image philosopher. His paintings are puzzles that explore the relationship between objects.
Born in Columbus, Ohio, Rachel Papo has spent her life in two countries, the US and Israel. Having been shooting since her teenage years, Rachel picked photography to meet her career ambitions and tell other people’s stories. Whether serving in the Israeli Air Force as a photographer or visiting a renowned Russian ballet school, the photographer always knows what to focus on to create an enthralling narrative that would be rather close to life.
Architectural photography is considered, if not endangered, then disappearing a type of photographic art: after all, it is much easier to photograph buildings than people. But the simplicity of architectural photography is imaginary. Millions of amateur photographs are able to perfectly convey the appearance of an object, to create a photocopy of it, but in fact this is not a step forward, but backward.
Above all, it is worth starting to determine what the avant-garde is, despite the fact that the direction is extremely popular nowadays, it appeared about 100 years ago at the beginning of the last 20th century. At that time, all old ideas seemed to be exhaustive, while the familiar art form reflected the artist's intuition already seemed irrelevant, so artists were looking for new ways of self-realisation and began to reject the traditional form of art. The origins of the avant-garde are the works of Van Gogh, Cézanne and Gauguin, the greatest masters of post-Impressionism, who have formed the basis of the avant-garde movement.